No Child Left Behind Bill

[Rockfan]

Yeah I haven't heard much about here in nz but it keeps pooping up in stuff I read but I don't know what it's about. So could some one please explain it to me.

[coda]

It is suppose to mean that no child is to be left behind in the education system as is noted that when they students take exams they are for the most part failing them. But, when the government makes cuts in funding programs, the cuts usually come out of education: cutting teacher's wages, and funds that could be used for text books and education materials or even to build new schools. there is a big crisis in the US of overcrowded schools and lack of teachers. In New York city some of the schools are so overcrowded that they are having classes in the tiny boiler system rooms in the basement. Other schools however, suburban schools in the wealthy areas probably are overfunded with the money that is put into extra curricular activities that could be going into inner-city schools. I am not sure how they divvy up the money to which schools.. but it's appareant that suburban public schools are doing much better than poorer area inner-city schools.

[Rockfan]

OK sweet as thanks bro

[Matthew The Great]

This is really working in Indiana :rolleyes:

Since Indiana is in such a big hole money-wise one of the ways new governer Mitch "The Knife" Daniels is cutting spending is by SLASHING public school budgets. My school is losing 5 teachers and 3 other faculty memebers at least. At least next year is my last year in high school so I will be gone before everything is gone (AP classes, all extra-ciriculars).

One of the dumbest things No Child Left Behind does is INCREASE the amount standerdized testing students take. Instead of every other year until high school it is now taken EVERY year. Standerdized tests do not help kids learn, they just put EVEN more pressure on the student. It's crazy.

Too bad the only thing people care about in public education is the teaching of "intelligent design" in our SCIENCE classes. :rolleyes:

[Rockfan]

Yeah and there's something about info going to the military?

[Matthew The Great]

I'm pretty sure military recruiters have ALWAYS been allowed to recruit in high schools. There is a big increase in this because of the war, obviously.

I don't know why they bother. They will take you if you don't have your degree (They will get you a fake one). What they do is take people from your neighborhood/school who joined the military and put them back so they can recruit their home town. They have done this around where I live. A familiar face to send you away to your death always makes things easier for everbody.

[coda]

Oh yeah! everything that gets cut gets funnelled to the military, war or no war.

Suburban schools get a lot of their money from property taxes of people owning land.. so to be fair since inner city's are made up of apartment dwellers.. the budgets put aside for education should be going to them.

[Red Youth]

Pretty much how it works is by eliminating a class of 10 students who are in AP Calc, and the class of 10 students in Alg 1, and put them in a class like Alg 2. Like that they can cut 2 teachers to save cash, have less classes that have few students. So instead of a child being in Alg 1 and learning something, they limit the children who understand things in the upper class and put the kids who don't understand math in the same class. That is the general idea really. Get rid of the classes with few students to cut teachers and make budget cuts.

How it affects the military is that unless your parents write the school saying to make your information private they will automatically forward it to the recruiting station in your neighborhood.